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Biotechnology
Gene therapy is given once, and almost every hard problem in the field comes from that
The virus that delivers a working gene also teaches the immune system to destroy it. You get one attempt — which is why the dose is enormous, the price is enormous, and a large share of patients are excluded before treatment is even considered.
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Biotechnology
A cancer drug that cannot be manufactured in a factory, because it is made out of the patient
CAR-T therapy takes a patient's own immune cells, gives them a receptor that does not exist in nature, and puts them back. It has cured people whose leukaemia had run out of options — and its cost, its side effects and its failure against solid tumours all trace to the same design.
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